The Roman Catholic Diocese of Płock ( la, Plocen(sis)) is a

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located in the city of

Płock Płock (pronounced ) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by GUS on 31 December 2021, there were 116,962 inhabitants in the city. Its full ceremonial name, according to th ...

in the

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Warszawa Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. Sunday mass attendance in 2013 was 30.7% of the population (39.1% Polish average) placing it to the group of less religious dioceses in the country.

History

* 1075: Established as Diocese of Płock * During the

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(

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), the Archbishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski and the auxiliary Bishop were imprisoned in the village of Słupno, and then in 1941 murdered in the

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, where also many other priests from Płock were killed. Nowowiejski and Wetmański are now considered two of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs of World War II by the

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. The Cathedral's ancient treasury, church archives and the diocesan library in Płock were

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by the Germans, and taken to museums in

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Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, r ...

and

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. * 2018: Płock Cathedral along with the entire ''Wzgórze Tumskie'' ("Tumskie Hill") listed by the President of Poland as a Historic Monument of Poland.

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: ** Bazylika pw. Zwiastowania NMP, Czerwińsk
(''Assumption'') ** Bazylika pw. Zwiastowania NMP (Parafię św. Mateusza),

Pułtusk Pułtusk (pronounced ) is a town in northeast Poland, by the river Narew. Located north of Warsaw in the Masovian Voivodeship, it had a population of about 19,000 . Known for its historic architecture and Europe's longest paved marketplace ( ...

(''Annunciation'')

Leadership

Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ...

s of Płock (Roman rite) ** Archbishop Wojciech Baranowski (1591–1607) ** Archbishop

Henryk Firlej Henryk Firlej (1574–1626) was a Polish szlachcic, bishop of Łuck (1616–1617), Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1624; Deputy Chancellor of the Crown Chancellor of Poland ( pl, Kanclerz - , from la, cancellarius) was one ...

(1617–1624) ** Bishop Jan Gembicki (1655.05.11 – 1674.03.13) ** Bishop

Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski Andrzej Załuski Chrysostom (1650 – 12 May 1711) was a seventeenth-century Polish preacher, translator, prolific writer, Chancellor of the Crown and bishop. Early life He was born in 1650 in Kiev, into the Junosza noble family, the son of Ale ...

(1692.10.15 – 1699.05.25) ** Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Załuski (1723.11.22 – 1736.11.19) ** Bishop

Antoni Sebastian Dembowski Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the fe ...

(1737–?) ** Bishop Józef Eustachy Szembek (1753–1758) ** Archbishop

Michał Jerzy Poniatowski Prince Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (12 October 1736 – 12 August 1794) was a Polish nobleman. Abbot of Tyniec and Czerwińsk (''opat tyniecki i czerwinski''), Bishop of Płock and Coadjutor Bishop of Kraków (''koadiutor krakowski'') from 17 ...

(1773–1784) ** Bishop Iraklij Listovskyj (1783 – 1809.08.30) ** Bishop Krzysztof Hilary Szembek (1784.10.02 – 1797.09.05) ** Bishop Ivan Krasovskyj (1809.09.22 – 1826) ** Bishop Tomasz Ostaszewski, S.J. (1815.09.04 – 1817.01.17) ** Bishop Adam Michał Prażmowski (1818–?) ** Archbishop Wincenty Teofil Popiel (1863.03.16 – 1875.07.05) ** Archbishop Franciszek Albin Symon (1897.07.21 – 1901.04.15) ** Archbishop Jerzy Józef Elizeusz Szembek (1901–1903) ** Archbishop Apollinary Wnukowski (1904.04.01 – 1908) ** Archbishop Antoni Julian Nowowiejski (1908.06.12 – 1941.05.28) ** Bishop Tadeusz Paweł Zakrzewski (1946.04.12 – 1961.11.26) ** Bishop Bogdan Sikorski (1964.01.21 – 1988.02.04) ** Archbishop

Zygmunt Kamiński Zygmunt Kamiński (22 February 1933 in Bełżyce – 1 May 2010 in Szczecin) was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland. Ordained priest on 22 December 1956, Kamiński was named auxiliary bishop of the ...

(1988.02.04 – 1999.05.01) ** Archbishop

Stanisław Wielgus Stanisław Wojciech Wielgus (born 23 April 1939) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church, who resigned his position as Archbishop of Warsaw on 6 January 2007, just one day after being installed in that post in a private ceremony, just befor ...

(1999.05.24 – 2006.12.06) ** Bishop Piotr Libera (2007.05.02 – 2022.06.04) ** Bishop Szymon Stułkowski (since 2022.10.31)

References

Sources

GCatholic.org

Diocese website
11th-century establishments in Poland 1075 establishments in Europe Plock Plock {{Europe-RC-diocese-stub

History

Special churches

Leadership

See also

References

Sources